Only if they will sell the data to telemarketers. And then sell me telemarketing blocking services. Then sell the telemarketers blocking work arounds. That would be cool. Oh wait, they already do that!
If all providers cap at the same time, then all of them make more money and nobody loses out... I would argue that, why should they be ABLE to hold me hostage to their evil "milking" scheme. Hmmmmm. If they are holding me hostage, its my fault. Do I need internet that bad? Nope. I can live without it just like I did before it was around, no problem. Do I really want to? Probably not, but thats the price you pay for freedom. Freedom is the ability to go without, and having that choice. If the producer is not offering me what I want, I dont have to buy it. If everyone adopts this policy, the cap will be gone quicker than you can say "profit loss". Unfortunatley, I have to be prepared to do this alone since I only have one vote and chances are, the sheeple will go along with whatever.
Runs fine on linux? MUAHAHAAHAHHA. You are dreaming if you think for a second that WarCraft will run nearly as well (or stable) as it will on XP. Call this flamebait if you want, but Linux is NOT a gaming machine. I love Linux as much as the next./ person, but be realistic. You want MMORGS? How about just about anything else of the shelf? I'll give you Unreal 2k3, but anything not written for Linux is doomed to crash and take hours of fooling with it to get it to work as opposed to insert CD, play. I'll stick with XP for that, thanks.
Its about the games, as I am sure it is for many./ers. I want to be able to play WC3, Sims, Neverwinter Nights and Unreal 2k3. You cant do this on linux, no way. Not even with WINE, (good luch getting it to work, and its no where near as stable as XP). And while you have the OS up for gaming, its just easier to keep it up for surfing and email etc. Before you know it, its your full time OS, except when you go out of your way to use linux. I do coding on my laptop, which runs linux, but I am not a full time coder, so XP gets more CPU Time.
I think he means the Board of Directors, the people who really call the shots. Just because you have 10K in the 401K doesnt really give you any leverage. As usual, our democracy really works as a plutocracy with democracy as a front. People with money can influence decision (which is the definition of politics) which gives them the power. There ya go.
While I think its cool not to have to return DVDs to rental outlets(I have had some really bad fines before) it just seems like such a waste of materials. Maybe we could use them as frizbees or coasters. But then what do we do with AOL discs?
NASA is darned if they do and darned if they dont where those conspiracies are concerned. If people *want* to believe something, nothing they say or do can prove otherwise.
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Dear Senior Taco,
Can we please change the handheld story picture to at least a palm V, which is dead sexxy?
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How cool would it be to have it as your credit card too? I have heard of cell phones that work like a credit card (hold up the cell to a coke machine for example to get some caffeine). WOuld this be secure enough to do that sort of transaction? It would be really nice to have an all in one wallet / phone/ portable PC solution. (I know this article isnt about a phone, but hey, why not!)
4 million a year? My company spent more on that just implementing one database last year, which isnt even all that business critical. I think that NASA should do more of those pay for flight things and become more cosumer driven if it wants to succeed. If people want to pay lots of money to go into outer space, then it is worth spending that money to make it happen!
I know I will - I wont use the internet anymore. There is nothing SO fundamentally important about the internet that I need it in my life for the discoutned price of 180$ per month. And thats probably what its going to be because ill be damned if I am reduced to counting bits as I download a new RedHat ISO. As usual, vote with your wallett. If you wanna pay 50$ per month to look at slashdot and check your email (you are now paying for spam by the way) go ahead, but I'd rather go without since you wont get multimedia and large programs at that price.
No they should get some guys in penguin suits to go beat the crap out of the butterflys. Oh wait...that would be illegal too. Maybe they should settle this on the 'rink, where fighting only gets you in the penalty box.
so perhaps the problem also lies in the legal system defending the patents? Should it reasonably cost you so much to simply enforce part of the "system" if you are indeed correct? Was this our founding fathers vision? Perhaps so, or perhaps not there are a lot of things in this country that work this way, so I simply pose it as food for thought.
I completely agree with you - but you cannot also trust smaller or independent ones all that much more because they have nothing to lose and have their own agenda as well. It must be left to the viewer to try to gain as much knowledge on their own through independent research of multiple news stories, then coming up with their own interpretation.
By then my post will be something more like, "Yes we need to continue devleoping the means to create our own planets". Reminds me of "Magrathea" from HHGTTG. Hmmm....
Indeed, everyone has their own agenda and I tend to take a lot of things CNN (and most other news agencies) reports on with a grain of salt. I think there are some valid concerns though because in your example that same airfield may have been home to a particular animal that now cannot live there. I think one of the lessons is that, yes, we have to be accountable for an impact on the Earth rather than just marveling at how incredibly vastly huge it is and not thinking that we can possibly impact it in a negative way.
Well - farmland and all that count too - rice fields, etc. So it does seem like a lot of space. Plus I dont think they count antartica since it is pretty much uninhabitable. I think this just further makes us realize how important it is for humans to start expanding into the universe in order to maintain the specis. A somewhat related article here
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Only if they will sell the data to telemarketers. And then sell me telemarketing blocking services. Then sell the telemarketers blocking work arounds. That would be cool. Oh wait, they already do that!
great thread! This other guy must really suck! I mean, get with the times man, quicktime rules! w00t w00t!
I use nothing less. If I did, I wouldnt be so 1337.
feer my leet codec skillz, boosh!
If all providers cap at the same time, then all of them make more money and nobody loses out...
I would argue that, why should they be ABLE to hold me hostage to their evil "milking" scheme. Hmmmmm. If they are holding me hostage, its my fault. Do I need internet that bad? Nope. I can live without it just like I did before it was around, no problem. Do I really want to? Probably not, but thats the price you pay for freedom. Freedom is the ability to go without, and having that choice. If the producer is not offering me what I want, I dont have to buy it. If everyone adopts this policy, the cap will be gone quicker than you can say "profit loss". Unfortunatley, I have to be prepared to do this alone since I only have one vote and chances are, the sheeple will go along with whatever.
Sorry, I wasnt refering to old super nintendo games. Cool that linux can handle it though.
Runs fine on linux? MUAHAHAAHAHHA. You are dreaming if you think for a second that WarCraft will run nearly as well (or stable) as it will on XP. Call this flamebait if you want, but Linux is NOT a gaming machine. I love Linux as much as the next ./ person, but be realistic. You want MMORGS? How about just about anything else of the shelf? I'll give you Unreal 2k3, but anything not written for Linux is doomed to crash and take hours of fooling with it to get it to work as opposed to insert CD, play. I'll stick with XP for that, thanks.
Its about the games, as I am sure it is for many ./ers. I want to be able to play WC3, Sims, Neverwinter Nights and Unreal 2k3. You cant do this on linux, no way. Not even with WINE, (good luch getting it to work, and its no where near as stable as XP). And while you have the OS up for gaming, its just easier to keep it up for surfing and email etc. Before you know it, its your full time OS, except when you go out of your way to use linux. I do coding on my laptop, which runs linux, but I am not a full time coder, so XP gets more CPU Time.
That silence you just heard was the sound of 20,000 smalltime webcasters going offline.
I think he means the Board of Directors, the people who really call the shots. Just because you have 10K in the 401K doesnt really give you any leverage. As usual, our democracy really works as a plutocracy with democracy as a front. People with money can influence decision (which is the definition of politics) which gives them the power. There ya go.
While I think its cool not to have to return DVDs to rental outlets(I have had some really bad fines before) it just seems like such a waste of materials. Maybe we could use them as frizbees or coasters. But then what do we do with AOL discs?
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NASA is darned if they do and darned if they dont where those conspiracies are concerned. If people *want* to believe something, nothing they say or do can prove otherwise.
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Dear Senior Taco,
Can we please change the handheld story picture to at least a palm V, which is dead sexxy?
Thanks
nege
How cool would it be to have it as your credit card too? I have heard of cell phones that work like a credit card (hold up the cell to a coke machine for example to get some caffeine). WOuld this be secure enough to do that sort of transaction? It would be really nice to have an all in one wallet / phone/ portable PC solution. (I know this article isnt about a phone, but hey, why not!)
nah, its "links" now. heh.
(its all in the "heh" folks)
and power cycle your modem! I had to power cycle the modem 3 times, and reboot the PC 3 times while getting my cable installed this weekend.
4 million a year? My company spent more on that just implementing one database last year, which isnt even all that business critical. I think that NASA should do more of those pay for flight things and become more cosumer driven if it wants to succeed. If people want to pay lots of money to go into outer space, then it is worth spending that money to make it happen!
I know I will - I wont use the internet anymore. There is nothing SO fundamentally important about the internet that I need it in my life for the discoutned price of 180$ per month. And thats probably what its going to be because ill be damned if I am reduced to counting bits as I download a new RedHat ISO. As usual, vote with your wallett. If you wanna pay 50$ per month to look at slashdot and check your email (you are now paying for spam by the way) go ahead, but I'd rather go without since you wont get multimedia and large programs at that price.
No they should get some guys in penguin suits to go beat the crap out of the butterflys. Oh wait...that would be illegal too. Maybe they should settle this on the 'rink, where fighting only gets you in the penalty box.
so perhaps the problem also lies in the legal system defending the patents? Should it reasonably cost you so much to simply enforce part of the "system" if you are indeed correct? Was this our founding fathers vision? Perhaps so, or perhaps not there are a lot of things in this country that work this way, so I simply pose it as food for thought.
I completely agree with you - but you cannot also trust smaller or independent ones all that much more because they have nothing to lose and have their own agenda as well. It must be left to the viewer to try to gain as much knowledge on their own through independent research of multiple news stories, then coming up with their own interpretation.
By then my post will be something more like, "Yes we need to continue devleoping the means to create our own planets". Reminds me of "Magrathea" from HHGTTG. Hmmm....
Indeed, everyone has their own agenda and I tend to take a lot of things CNN (and most other news agencies) reports on with a grain of salt. I think there are some valid concerns though because in your example that same airfield may have been home to a particular animal that now cannot live there. I think one of the lessons is that, yes, we have to be accountable for an impact on the Earth rather than just marveling at how incredibly vastly huge it is and not thinking that we can possibly impact it in a negative way.
Well - farmland and all that count too - rice fields, etc. So it does seem like a lot of space. Plus I dont think they count antartica since it is pretty much uninhabitable. I think this just further makes us realize how important it is for humans to start expanding into the universe in order to maintain the specis. A somewhat related article here